Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26222858-20150917141812/@comment-26222858-20151001163007

It was not a partial transformation. In case you didn't tell, Nero's arm was glowing quite brightly, which probably masked Dante's spasms between DT and human forms. Plus who knows, he pobably shut his eyes while punching him, then opened them when he picked him up to throw him. We don't know, Nero's face was out of view, but it wouldn't make sense for just PART of his body to DT when the lightning that forms in Dante's DT, strikes more than his hand. It trails up his body.

Plus, in the very beginning of the game, he has NO Devil Arms equipped. Rebellion is lodged into the ground a few feet away, and that was his only Devil Arm.